Chapter 13

"We usually don't have any skills to make a living, and we earn money a few coins at a time."

"If we learn to hunt like humans, we can only catch some rabbits and the like, which aren't worth much."

"If we really want to become humans, we'll starve to death."

"Being a human is really hard, harder than being a fox."

"Actually, if you cultivate a hundred years of cultivation, you can transform into a beautiful girl or a handsome boy, and with a good skin, it won't be bitter."

"Didn't that Fox Agui go to the county town to enjoy happiness? Last time he came back to the countryside to play, he told me that there is a Cuichun Pavilion in the county, which is a place of absolute happiness, where you can earn money by spreading your legs." The Lame Fox laughed gigglingly.

"What kind of stinky fart are you letting out here?"

"He signed a slave contract, from then on he had no freedom, what kind of happiness is that?"

"Selling your ass, smiling and drinking, is that happiness?"

"Sooner or later, someone will recognize him, it's lucky they didn't beat him to death." The miscellaneous-fur fox gritted his teeth: "It's a pity you look ugly, you can't learn from him. If you learned from him, I would have to beat you to death one by one."

Seeing the miscellaneous-fur fox lose his temper, the others didn't dare to be smug anymore.

Fox Agui was also a junior of the miscellaneous-fur fox, with bright red fur, much better looking than them.

Good-looking foxes also have good luck. That Fox Agui learned the art of the bedchamber from the pictures in a small yellow book that a scholar had dropped before he even became a demon.

At the age of fifty, when he just learned the technique of human transformation, he chose the skull of a woman who had died of illness in Cuichun Pavilion to worship the Dipper, transforming into the appearance of a slightly older courtesan.

Since then, he often disobeyed the miscellaneous-fur fox, and often went to the fields to hook up with those forty or fifty-year-old, very hungry rural farmers.

In less than five years, he possessed a hundred years of cultivation and could transform freely. At this time, he completely stopped listening to the miscellaneous-fur fox, and even made him half-dead with anger.

After possessing a hundred years of cultivation, Fox Agui became active in his mind, not wanting to stay in the Old Crooked Neck Tree Fox Cave anymore, thinking about going to the county town to develop.

So he soon transformed into a sixteen-year-old girl and another fox demon who was also active in his mind, and performed a play of selling herself to bury her father.

Soon he was spotted by a trafficker who bought girls for Cuichun Pavilion, and he spent twenty taels of silver to make him sign a slave contract and went to Cuichun Pavilion to learn skills, which was even more to his liking.

From then on, Fox Agui learned human nature in the brothel, and became more and more familiar with human nature, and also very realistic.

Up and down, there was no difference from a living person, and even because of the fox demon's constitution, she was more miraculous than the other ladies in Cuichun Pavilion.

The customers who came and went all respected her as a "famous vessel."

It's just that what Fox Agui learned in the brothel was not the "goodness, benevolence, courage, and righteousness" of human nature, but "treachery, cunning, fierceness, and bullying," stepping on the bones of others step by step to rise, and now he was already a top-tier figure in Cuichun Pavilion.

Then his ambition expanded, and he didn't want to be under the name of Cuichun Pavilion anymore, wanting to open a building hall by himself.

Later, when he returned to the countryside, it wasn't to visit his clan, but to pull a few clansmen to join him. Fox demons were better at things than mortals, and there were industry dividends to eat.

It's just that not long after he was happy, Fox Agui was scolded by the miscellaneous-fur fox.

But the miscellaneous-fur fox couldn't control him anymore. After he started business in Cuichun Pavilion, his cultivation and magic became more and more profound, and he had already become the most glorious fox in the county.

Any fox who looked okay wanted to make quick money, and the miscellaneous-fur fox couldn't persuade them to come back. Only those who were left behind, who were ugly and didn't have enough cultivation, mixed with him.

Yidan, Erque, and Santou didn't speak, and in their hearts, they were indeed a bit disapproving. After eating and taking, they left the Niu mansion. Niu Congcong held his urine until dawn, only then couldn't help but come out to go to the latrine and saw the leftovers on the table, the "claw prints" left by the oil stains, and also found some hair and whiskers.

This was clearly not the way people ate and drank.

Although there were many legends of ghosts and demons in the countryside, this was the first time he had truly encountered one.

But Niu Congcong, although a bit scared in his heart, was more excited and surprised.

Having demons meant there were immortals, which further proved that what Xu Jia said was true.

Although he said he believed in gods and immortals, he had never really encountered them before.

Now, although he hadn't met an immortal, meeting such a demon was the same.

And Xu Jia must have an immortal opportunity, otherwise how could he communicate with these fox demons?

The servants of the Niu family didn't have a good night either, especially Zhao Mama, who had been thinking about who these ten chickens were made for all night.

In the middle of the night, she heard the strange sounds outside the courtyard, but she was scared to death.

She believed in these gods and Buddhas, ghosts and monsters, so when she came out the next day, she was terrified and persuaded Niu Congcong: "Young master, I shouldn't have said this, but these things... it's better not to bring them into the house... it's unlucky."

Niu Congcong didn't listen to her, but warned: "Zhao Mama, don't say a word about what happened last night to the outside, and don't go back and tell my father and mother, just clean up the things! I'll give you two hundred coins later."

Zhao Mama wanted to say something but stopped, but Niu Congcong had already left.

And those four fox demons, returning to the fox den, gave some to the other foxes who couldn't transform into human forms and hadn't become demons. Even if it was chicken bones, chicken heads, or chicken butts, they ate them with relish.

Waiting until dawn, the Sparrow Spirit came to the Old Crooked Neck Tree again to pass a message to the Huaban fox: "Huaban fox, why don't you come and see the messenger!"

No longer the weak image from before.

Huaban fox knew that this Sparrow Spirit had joined Xu Jia's side, so he didn't dare to be slow, and coaxed: "Does the messenger have any imperial edict from the Great Immortal to pass on?"

The Sparrow Spirit said proudly: "Tonight, the Great Immortal wants you to go to the Xu mansion. He wants to give you names!"

Huaban fox was happy: "This is truly good fortune, life is getting better and better, more and more prosperous!"

Before he could be happy, the Sparrow Spirit had already flown away. It turned out that Xu Jia had given him a task this morning, to investigate the shamans and witches in the township, what kind of skills they had, besides this nest of foxes, what other demons and monsters there were, or temples, Daoist temples, evil sacrifices, and licentious temples...

Xu Jia thought that after his body was slightly recuperated, he could start to subdue them one by one, and at the same time obtain cultivation materials of this world from them.

Although it was highly likely that these people wouldn't have any cultivation techniques or secret manuals, one couldn't be too sure.

Xu Jia stayed at home, drinking rice soup and porridge, and it would probably take a month or so to be able to go out normally.

Nourishing the physical body and entering the cultivation of life merit would take even longer.

The original body had been lost for seven days, and he had borrowed the corpse to return to life, which was already extremely weak. Coupled with his own "nature cultivation," he had completely inherited the level of his past life. This was a good thing in the long run, but a disadvantage in the short term, causing an imbalance of yin and yang, with a strong soul but a weak body, and strong yin and weak yang.

It was easy for the blood and Qi supply to be insufficient.

(End of this chapter)